Vanishing Wild places of Canada

The Vanishing Wild

of Canada

The Vanishing Wild spaces. My biggest and longest ongoing project is imaging the places that have supposedly been set aside to remain wild and pristine.

The Provincial and National parks of Ontario in particular and Canada in general. Before they are consumed by the ever encroaching need to pave. To harvest all the available natural resources.

For instance the rocky shores of Lake Superior park, difficult to access by tourists are being blasted apart to make gravel for roads. While tree harvest continues to occurs on the back roads throughout the park lands system.

Many parks like Algonquin contain extensive back country logging road. Which are closed to travel by normal people. We suspect both to prevent discovery of the logged out areas. As well as encountering a fast moving heavy logging truck on a narrow roadway is very dangerous.
We try to travel to one or two parks a year and stay a month or so to get the feel of the land.
While there we travel mostly by foot, kayak, canoe, bicycle or for really long distances the Jeep

Really good TED talk on why we waste huge amounts of our limited free time on the web.

Doing thing like S&M (Social Media) that actually makes people less than happy.

Surprising or not the tech wizard from silly valley including the creators of the ipad drastically restrict their kids access to tech.

And some innovative companies in the EU that actively prevent people from accessing work after 6pm or in Germany a car manufacturer automatically deleting emails sent to employees on vacation.(if you are on vacation you are on vacation, no work and nothing piles up waiting for your return)

Time wasting Social Media is not good for your health.SoTurn off, Sign off, Log out and get a hobby instead.